CRISTIAN DANIEL RIZEA | |
Contact information | |
Contact | Please use contact option from the main menu to write me. |
Birthdate and place | 05.01.1973 - Bucharest, Romania |
WEB | www.LaBursa.ro www.UnicSol.ro |
Education | |
2004 - 2006 | Executive MBA at INDE institute (CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) Paris - ASE Bucharest - www.inde.ro) |
November 2003 - May 2004 | Project Management at CODECS - The Open University |
March - May 2002 | Intellectual Property at WIPO Worldwide Academy |
1991 - 1996 | Computer Science at University "Politehnica" of Bucharest - UPB - "Facultatea Automatica si Calculatoare", bachelor graduated in 1996 |
1987 - 1991 | Mathematics-physics at "Lyceum of Metrology", Bucharest |
Relevant Experience - short description | |
02.11.2012 - 06.08.2015 | Producer and Life game manager - Company: "UBISOFT Entertainment", Bucharest |
16.09.2010 - 01.04.2014 | CTO - Chief Technical Officer - Company: "Smartree Romania srl", Bucharest |
11.05.2009 - 15.09.2010 | Software Department Manager - "Analytika International IT-Management Consulting srl", Bucharest |
February 2007 - May 2009 | General Manager at "UNIC SOL SRL", Bucharest |
01.08.1996 - 16.02.2007 | Project manager (after senior software engineer) at "UBISOFT Entertainment", Bucharest |
21.03.2005 - 21.08.2006 | Producer of "Forum Bursier" talk show at "Radio MIX FM", Bucharest |
01.03.1994 - 01.09.1995 | Project Manager and Analyst Programmer at "Dynamic Design SRL", Bucharest |
01.06.1993 - 01.09.1993 | System and Network Administrator at �Castel SRL�, Bucharest |
Languages | |
Romanian | Native language |
English | Good |
French | Medium |
German | Beginner |
Behaviors, skills and abilities | |
I am a well-organized, independent person with a proactive attitude, with a good team working experience in an international environment. I am task-focused and I can identify the problems and face them, finding the best solution in the available time. I want always to evolve in my life. I want to do the things better and better and expect this approach from every person. | |
Management and project management | |
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Radio and Media | |
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Information technology | |
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Other realizations | |
I was teaching the "Data flow and data management" course in the 2003 B.E.S.T. summer school named "Fantasy meets reality. Design your own game!" in Bucharest. Starting with 2002 I have begun my direct investments on the Bucharest Stock Exchange market. Also in 2004 I had some investments on the FOREX spot market. I am a member of The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences from US, because of my activities in the computer game industry. In 2002 with some of my work colleagues, I was involved in a basketball team and we had participated in a basketball competition. I was involved as coach and had played as pivot. We had won the fifth place out of twelve. It was a good thing for knowing each other and good for develop our teamwork abilities. Now I am member of RoSQL basketball team. Brainbench certificates: (www.brainbench.com use View Public Transcript with no: 4719532): Business Concepts(US), Bussiness Math, Project management, Project management(2000), MS Excel 97, C I have clear driving license since 1994 (B category). |
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Relevant Experience - details | |
Position description: Producer and Live game manager - 02.11.2012 - 05.08.2015 (full time job) Company description: "UBISOFT Entertainment", Bucharest Department: Management Job description: Live game manager for Galaxy Life - an F2P online game about building a little economy to support lot of battles. Released on platforms: Facebook (https://apps.facebook.com/galaxylife/ ), IOS (Apple), Android (GGL and AMZ) - As a Live Game Manager, I was responsible for Galaxy Life development and business case. My responsibility was to operate the product in a profitable and sustainable way by leading the entire development and maintenance team, to prioritize their work according to the product's strategic business goals I decide. - My responsibilities also involved: - Leading the game team composed by programmers, marketing F2P manager, designer, graphic artist, QA, Customer manager, mentoring, do appraisal and developing them as people manager. - Using analysis of key metrics to identify & implement new design features, product improvements and steps to improve the game monetization. - Ensuring a strong return-on-investment focus with respect to Marketing, Product Development and Customer Relations. - Validating investments and budgets, controlling & forecasting costs and revenues. - Ensuring a customer-centric approach. - Producer for The Settlers Online and Silent Hunter - free to play online games, built by international distributed teams with Blue Byte Ubisoft Germany and Ubisoft Bucharest. - Leading a 16 persons team built from zero and made the needed hiring and selection processes. 3 teams - programming, design and QA, each of them with a team manager. - Managed the budget of about 1 mil USD/year and the project scope day by day - Organize the production environments, processes and procedures, made performance reviews and annual appraisals |
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Position description: CTO (Chief Technical Officer) - 15.09.2010 - 01.04.2012 (full time job) Company description: "Smartree Romania srl", Bucharest (www.smartree.com ) - HR outsourcing company. Department: Management Job description: Cristian is managing the Software development, Implementation, Maintenance and support teams and the IT Manager for three internal developed solutions and was involved in every IT and technical related decision in the company. He negotiated the contracts with the technical services suppliers (mobile and fix data transfer, server hosting, printers and servers maintenance, being involved in any technical and IT related purchasing decisions). Then, I have continued to develop and manage the Unic Sol business and make several jobs related to development of an online trading platform for the Bucharest stock exchange market for WBS Holding. Setting the internal procedures and how the departments and teams are working. He was in charge with the management of the everyday work, coordinating the IT department and supervises the teams and managers. Achievements: - Manage 3 teams: Development with around 15 software developers divided in 3 teams, Implementation with around 7 persons, Support about 10 persons, IT Manager - Reduced the overall IT cost with about 60% by negotiating the contracts with the technical services suppliers. |
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Position description: Software Department Manager - 11.05.2009 - 15.09.2010 (full time job) Company description: "Analytika International IT-Management Consulting srl", Bucharest (www.analytika.eu) - Software developing company for logistics and transportation markets and ANOFM project subcontractor. Department: Management Job description: Manage the software development department and be involved in all the IT related decisions in the company. He negotiated the contracts with the technical services suppliers (mobile and fix data transfer, server hosting, printers and servers maintenance, being involved in any technical and IT related purchasing decisions). He was involved in CV selection, interviews and final decision for hire the department collaborators. He has started to develop the department from scratch. Setting the internal procedures and how the department works. He was in charge with the management of the everyday work of the department and also with the project management of the migration of the company logistic solution from Informix to C# and MS-SQL. He was using Agile/Scrum methodology for the project management of this migration. He had built different offers, financial and technical, for the auctions and the contracts where the company was participating in. He was involved in business development and sales of the company products in Romania. He represents the company, from technical point of view, on the Romanian market. Achievements: - In May 2010, he and his team finished the development process of the transport solution named "Frasped NG Basic" (English-German-Romanian localized version) and he successfully launched it on the Romanian market. In July 2010, the same application was launched on the Austrian and German markets. - Decided the solution and data architecture of the transport and logistics software solution (named "Frasped NG Basic") he has developed with his team and managed the every day work, including from technical point of view. - He has decided about the team organization and how it will work with Resharper, Visual VSN, Janus controls and Mirage licensing system. - He had interviewed the software engineers and decided the final candidates. He was also involved in the final salary negotiation. - Because it was a new company, first he was involved in building up the company network with Active Directory, servers, gateway, firewall and switches and about 15 computers. He have decided the network structure and put it into place, using his hardware knowledge. |
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Position description: Manager - 02.2007 - 05.2009 (full time job) Company description: "UNIC SOL SRL", Bucharest (www.unicsol.ro). - UNIC SOL is a company that I have started. Department: Management Job description: UNIC SOL activates in the IT and management domain offering consultancy and software solutions. First contract was a consultant contract of project management with UBISOFT Entertainment, from Paris. Then, I have continued to develop and manage the Unic Sol business and make several jobs related to development of an online trading platform for the Bucharest stock exchange market for WBS Holding. I and my collaborators have also developed the www.LaBursa.ro site and community related to investments and stocks exchange trading activities. Achievements: - Developed an online stock exchange trading platform for Romanian stock exchange market built in C# and MSSQL, using the .NET technologies. He did the project management and also the business and system analyze. He was also involved in the programming of some important modules regarding the multithreading and the link with the BVB (Bucharest Stock Exchange) server. Video platform presentation |
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Position description: Project Manager - 08.1996 - 16.02.2007 2007 (full time job) (after several years of working as software engineer and senior software engineer) Company description: "UBISOFT Entertainment", Bucharest UBISOFT is the Romanian subsidiary of UBISOFT Entertainment, a French company that produces, publishes, distributes and sells computer games. It is in top 5 in the computer gamming industry all over the world. (For more information please check www.ubisoft.com / www.ubisoft.fr) Department: Production Department Job description:
Lead projects from the beginning to the end and finish them in time and budget. I was working as project manager in localization department with the following companies and titles: UBISOFT (French): Silent Hunter 3 and 4, Trolls - Hair Affair, Blazing Angels 1 and 2, CSI 3, Settlers gold. Microsoft (U.S.): Dungeon Siege 2, Age of Empires 3 and the 10 patches for it. Taito (Japanese company): Over G Game Loft(U.K.): Asphalt 2 Those titles were designed for PC, Wii, PS3, PS2, DS, XBOX, X360 or GBA platforms and for each title were several projects, for several languages as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Slovakian, Japanese, Chinese. For each language I used translation companies as subcontractors, using a team of 5-20 collaborators.
As software engineer I was participated at developing different games or tools for create animations, design and build game levels, design and build GUI (Graphic User Interface) or menus and other parts for different games.
For most of the programs I was used C or C++ programming languages under Visual C or Visual .NET, some of them using the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) or ATL/WTL, under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP operating system, using VSS or NXN as version control systems. |
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Position description: Talk show producer - 21.03.2005 - 21.08.2006 I am one of the two creators of the talk show: "Forum Bursier". You may download from www.mixfm.ro all of our shows for free in mp3 file format from "Inregistrari \ Forum Bursier" section or I can provide you with the records of the shows in mp3 file format. Company description: Radio "MIX FM", Bucharest - Mix FM is a national network of radio stations. (More information at www.mixfm.ro) Department: Economical Job description: As a talk show author I choose the subject of the show, the guests, choose the questions and the materials that we discuss about, talking with the guests on the live show. Achievements: I had an audience of 7.5% from the people who are listen radio between 18:30-19:00 all over the area covered by radio MIX. We archived that, starting in March 2005 and the media research was done in November 2005. On the other hand, the MIX FM target is the business sector, so, much of our listeners are high-educated persons, knowing or willing to know more about stock market and investment opportunities, the subject of our talk show. This is a project started with a friend, Daniel Iancu, in order to teach the public about the mechanisms of the BVB stock exchange market and other financial ways to invest and manage the money that each person have. Daniel Iancu was my colleague in the creation of this talk show until 16.05.2006, and then I have continued to do the show by myself. In August 2006 the radio station was sold and the new owner has changed the radio orientation from business to a general-commercial approach of the programs and our contract was canceled. |
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Position description: Project Manager and Analyst Programmer - 03.1994 - 09.1995 Company description: "Dynamic Design SRL", Bucharest. It was a small company working in the media / publicity field. Department: IT Department Job description: Developing and maintaining different programs. Manage all the company's PCs from software and hardware point of view. Achievements: I have developed a software package for publicity. Mainly it was displaying animation from different file format on big LED matrix signs (1.5x2, 3x5 meters or bigger) using C and Assembler 80x86 languages. In addition, I have developed a program for internal balance account of the company (database management and all the other accounting � economical stuff) using C/C++ language. |
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Position description: System and Network Administrator - 06.1993 - 09.1993 Company description: "Castel SRL", Bucharest Department: IT Job description: Install and maintain IT equipment and related software for a local network using Novell 3.12; Database administrator. |
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Actual areas of interest | |
Business and improve my management and interpersonal skills, computers, stocks markets. |